Social development

Officers from the Directorate-General of Consumer Protection, Competition and Fraud Repression (CCF) launched a campaign on June 29 to enforce the Ministry of Health ban on the sales of Covid-19 antibody rapid test kits in markets and pharmacies across the capital. ...

World Food Program in collaboration with the Ministry of Education yesterday provided food to 200,000 people in Siem Reap, Oddar Meanchey, Kampong Thom, Kampong Chhnang and Pursat provinces.   ...

Out-of-School youths and young adults who have not completed their lower secondary education can now do so with the launch of the 282 digitalised videos for teaching and learning for the Non-Formal Education Lower Secondary Equivalency (NFE-LSEP) programme. ...

United Russia Party chairman Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president and prime minister, yesterday promised Prime Minister Hun Sen that Russia will provide vaccines to help Cambodia fight Covid-19. ...

Chhouk District Administration has decided to temporarily suspend sales in Chhouk Market for one week from June 29 to July 5, 2021.    ...

The Ministry of Health purchased one million SD Biosensor Covid-19 rapid test kits from South Korea, with its shipment arriving in the Kingdom on Saturday through coordination by the Cambodian embassy there. ...

Svay Rieng Provincial Administration has joined Phnom Penh, Sihanoukville and Siem Reap in issuing a ban on alcohol sales in the province effective today to July 12. ...

Cambodia spent around $170 million to purchase vaccines for the 10 million people planned for the vaccination, in addition to the 324,000 doses of AstraZeneca/SII (COVISHIELD) via COVAX Facility and 2.2 million doses of Sinopharm donated by China. ...

A recent survey of 100 people in Battambang and Kampong Chhnang provinces and Phnom Penh by civil society organisations revealed that 85 per cent of women are still interested in entering politics, especially through the commune and general elections in 2022 and 2023 respectively. ...

Phnom Penh health officials claim the steady decline of cases of Covid-19 in Phnom Penh is due to the government’s successful vaccination drive.​   ...

Cambodia’s education sector met for a high-level discussion with the government to forge a path forward for the re-opening of schools.   ...

Another 1 million doses of vaccine are set to arrive in Cambodia on the morning of June 26.   ...

The vaccination campaign of workers in the Sihanoukville Special Economy Zone (SSEZ) kicked off yesterday, not only to protect them from COVID-19 pandemic, but also to keep the production chains of factories in the zone. ...

Following the completion and ceasing of the vaccination campaign in the capital on June 22, the army began commencing the provincial vaccination campaign. Almost 60,000 people received their first dose of the vaccine. ...

The government has opened its first phase of providing a subsidy to 275,747 workers from 513 factories involved in the manufacturing of garments, footwear and bags in Phnom Penh, Kandal  province and Sihanoukville. ...

A study into administering Covid-19 vaccinations to children will begin after the initial drive for vaccinating people 18 and over is complete, a senior Ministry of Health official said. ...

Several provinces with a high number of workers including Kampong Speu, Takeo and Svay Rieng are set to kick off large-scale vaccinations in a campaign administered by the ministries of Health and National Defence. ...

The Ratanakkiri provincial authorities are enforcing Covid-19 measures in Banlung town after the more than 30 imported cases it had initially detected spread into the community. ...

Since early May, an average of five to 10 Cambodian people have died from Covid-19 a day with many others testing positive amid the ongoing community outbreak. At the same time, however, hundreds of patients also recovered a day. ...

Cambodia has sought social protection development support from Australia for its future socio economic development along with maintaining the ongoing positive social cohesion. ...

Cambodia expects to get 5 more million doses of COVID-19 vaccines in July this year, Dr. Yuok Sambath, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Health said. ...

More than 100 private educational institutions have decided to request a meeting with the government to find ways to reopen schools as many of them are facing bankruptcy and on the brink of closing. The decision came during a virtual meeting among them on June ...

Kandal province is set to begin a wide spread vaccination drive that will encompass 11 towns, tomorrow, June 10, 2021. The vaccination will be for the general public and workers. ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued new risk assessment levels for travel during the Covid-19 pandemic listing Cambodia as Level 2 which means “moderate” risk. ...